We have been to Stash Café many times in the past (the restaurant has been around for decades). Our most recent visit was on a Thursday noontime in January.
Stash is located in a dark and cosy location at the corner of rue Saint-Paul and...rue Saint-François-Xavier in Old Montreal.
We arrived shortly before noon, and only one other table was occupied. This changed quickly, and by 12:30 of so the restaurant was nearly full. The clientele was made up primarily of locals but there were a number of tourists also.
We were served by Szymon (but others of the waitstaff also chipped in). We started with the soup of the day (Zupa Dnia) which was a polish pickle soup. (This was a hearty vegetable soup flavoured with dill.) One of us followed this up with the pierogi "mix" (eight dumplings with various fillings, served with sauerkraut) and the other with the dish of the day, which turned out to be Strogonow (beef stroganoff with a red wine sauce with mushrooms, served with two potato pancakes and beet salad).
The food was excellent, rib-sticking fare, perfect for a cold day.
Traveller's tip: to get to the washrooms, you actually leave the restaurant itself and enter a small lobby area. Follow the signs up the stairs (there is also an elevator).More